40 Shocking Redhead Facts
Did you know redheads were considered vampires by the Ancient Greeks and it was also believed to be practitioners of dark magic? Find these and more redheads facts in this list.
1. Around 2% of the world’s population has red hairs.
2. While 49% of those polled in a Clairol Color Attitude survey think blonds are naïve, only 15% thought redheads were.
3. Most redheads are found in Western Europe than anywhere else in the world.
4. Some scholars postulate that the same gene mutation that causes red hair also affects the way redheads respond to pain and anesthetics.
5. Redheads have fiery tempers and sharp tongues.
6. Redheads are more inclined to grow skin cancer than people with other hair colors.
7. Disney Princesses like Merida and Ariel are redheads.
8. Some scholars postulate that the same gene mutation that causes red hair also affects the way redheads respond to pain and anesthetics.
9. Famous redheads are Helen of Troy, Malcolm X, Antonio Vivaldi, Thomas Jefferson, Vincent Van Gogh, Galileo, Cleopatra, the ancient god of love Aphrodite and King David.
10. Redheads don’t go gray.
11. Redheads come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. They can have golden hair, bright orange or maybe just strawberry blonde. They’re all a part of the family.
12. Genetic distinctions in MC1R DNA are communal with redheads.
13. Redheads are mostly left-handed.
14. Redheads are more sensitive to hot, cold & pain than any other.
15. Redheaded slaves were more costly than another hair color.
16. Hitler’s Nazi regime considered redheads to be demonic. It went on to ban marriage between two redheads, believing that they would produce more demon children.
17. Redheads are more sexually desirable.
18. The Netherlands celebrates a two-day celebration called Roodharigendag in Dutch for redheads obligation in each September.
19. Fear of redheads is called “Ginger-phobia”.
20. Scotland has 13% of redheads and it is the highest proportion in the World.
21. Bees are more attracted towards redheads than any other hair color.
22. Redheads have an impressive sense of humor.
23. Red-headed men are 54 percent less likely to create prostate cancer.
24. Ancients Greeks believe Redheads were Vampires.
25. Redheads have less hair than brunettes.
26. Redheads have low amounts of melanin in their body.
27. Redheads require 20 percent more of anesthesia as related to a regular patient.
28. Art history shows us that many painters chose to depict muses with red hair, such as The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli.
29. Redheads have an impressive sense of humor because they grow up by teased for their ginger hair color.
30. Ordinary red hair is tougher to color than other shades.
31. Red hair & blue eyes are the intermittent combinations in the world.
32. Redheads are good at detecting changes in temperature than a person having any other hair color so, we can call them Temperature sensor.
33. Redheads have more sensitive teeth as compare to others.
34. Redheads were buried alive as sacrifices to the God Osiris in Egypt.
35. Adolf Hitler prohibited the marriage of redheads to avoid different offspring.
36. Redhead cannot appropriately absorb Vitamin D.
37. According to research on an average, brunettes have 140,000 strands of hair; blondes have 110,000 strands of hair and redheads have 90,000 which is too less, but red hair is thicker than any other hair color.
38. Redheads have the greater risk of melanoma.
39. There were 45,000 redheads women killed between the years 1483 and 1784 because It was believed to be practitioners of dark magic.
